What does it mean to describe a person's character as "perverse" or "surly"?

◎ perverse guāizhāng( 1) is not normal; If something is wrong, the language is arrogant and the feelings are perverse. -Journey to the West (2) Stubborn and eccentric, with remote and perverse behavior. -In A Dream of Red Mansions, the grumpy Gu ā il is naughty, contradictory and inconsistent. Today, impatience and irritability are called grumpy, grumpy and harmonious; Uneven, for surly. -Shijitian Guan Shu